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The codenames for every major Debian release are named after characters from Pixar's Toy Story franchise. Debian's unstable release is fittingly named after Sid, an unstable character from the Toy Story movies.

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[–] eRac@lemmings.world 61 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Similarly, VLC names their releases after Discworld characters. It's a fun way to make major versions feel like more than just a number increment.

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 15 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The Vorbis audio codec was also named after Vorbis from Small Gods, the 13th Discworld book.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's contested but still very cool (and the people who disagree are wrong)

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The Xiph.org foundation themselves say that's where the name came from.

[–] caseyweederman@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago

Right, it's the Ogg part I was thinking of.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 10 months ago

I love that Theora is called that after the controller in Max Headroom played by Amanda Pays.

[–] dwemthy@lemdro.id 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Does that make Ogg Vorbis some kind of twisted shipping?

[–] clb92@feddit.dk 3 points 10 months ago

Ogg was apparently not named after Nanny Ogg, no matter how awesome that'd be.

[–] IrritableOcelot@beehaw.org 11 points 10 months ago

For anyone else who was wondering, it's major releases only, and so far it's been:

  • The Luggage
  • Twoflower
  • Rincewind
  • Weatherwax
  • Vetinari

Not sure Havelock would look kindly at being left til 5th, but you can't please everyone.

[–] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 8 points 10 months ago

Huh TIL! That's cool

[–] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Came to say this, I remember when I first looked at VLC version and saw Rincewind (I think it was), and was like "this has to be a Discworld reference"